Big Metal Birds

Big Metal Birds is the debut album by American noise rock band Janitor Joe.[2][3] It was released in 1993, on Amphetamine Reptile Records, and was the band's only album to feature bassist Kristen Pfaff, who would leave the band to join Hole later that year, before her death in 1994.

Big Metal Birds
Studio album by
Janitor Joe
Released1993
GenreNoise rock, alternative rock, grunge, punk rock
Length37:00
LabelAmphetamine Reptile Records[1]
Janitor Joe chronology
Big Metal Birds
(1993)		 Lucky
(1994)

Critical reception

Trouser Press praised "the blue-collar manner in which [the band] rakes through grit-mottled riffs, fashioning a burnished, no-frills end product likely to pique the curiosity of those prone to solicit ear perforation."[4] The Washington Post called the songs "short and punchy, less grinding (though no gentler) than typical AmRep fare," writing that "though not quite sprightly, songs like 'Slur' and the neo-rockabilly 'Goal Oriented' do have a spring in their grunge."[5] Option called the album "classic Amphetamine Reptile ... full of hair-raising guitar grunts, guttural vocals, tree trunk-pounded drums — all slathered with a thick coating of grimy production ethos the color of Guinness Stout."[6]

Track listing

All music is composed by Janitor Joe

No.TitleLength
1."Early Retirement"3:13
2."Voucher"2:02
3."Boyfriend"2:49
4."Limited Edition"2:19
5."One Eye"3:47
6."Big Metal Birds"3:13
7."Boys in Blue"3:43
8."Slur"2:28
9."Steel Plate"3:05
10."Goal Oriented"3:21
11."Sunshine"2:36
12."Head"2:04
13."African Necklace"3:02
Total length:37:00

Personnel
  • Joachim Breuer – vocals, guitar
  • Kristen Pfaff – bass guitar, vocals
  • Matt Entsminger – drums

References
  1. "Amphetamine Reptile Records". www.amphetaminereptile.com.
  2. "Janitor Joe | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  3. "A Promise to Kristen -". January 15, 2008.
  4. "Janitor Joe". Trouser Press. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  5. Jenkins, Mark (September 24, 1993). "'HEAD EXPLODES, GROWS ON YOU" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  6. "Reviews". Option. 48–53: 111. 1993.
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